Refugees and asylum seekers in Brisbane have begun daily protests urging for their release after doctors and human rights lawyers flagged fears that a repurposed hotel could become a coronavirus infection hotspot. In response to the COVID-19…

Up to 4,000 prisoners in England and Wales are to be temporarily released from jail in an effort to try and control the spread of coronavirus, the government has announced. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said the selected low-risk offenders will be…

The following declaration is in support of the cease-fire appeal issued by UN Secretary-General António Gutteres on 23 March. 'As we face the fierce common enemy of the new coronavirus, we the United Nations Messengers of Peace forcefully…

UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

One year since the launch of a military offensive in Tripoli, Libya, fighting is further worsening with COVID-19 now bringing new threats, warns UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. More than 300 civilians have been killed and 150,000 others displaced…

More than 3,600 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus. Among them are frontline medical staff. Sirin Kale tells the the story of two of them. The two men did not know each other, probably their paths never crossed, but…